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Biographical notes
Marat Shabaev is a Russian film critic. He earned his M.A. in Film Theory and Criticism at Saint Petersburg State University. He is currently an author and editor at the Kinopoisk online database.
Felix Helbing is a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. He is currently finishing a dissertation on Soviet labor theorist Aleksei Gastev that examines the intersection of technology and the body as envisioned within Gastev’s utopia of mechanized collectivism. Felix’s additional research interests include the philosophical writings of Aleksandr Bogdanov, digital media—especially video games—and, more recently, industrialization and the body in Tolstoy’s late work.